Two campuses within the University of Wisconsin System announced Tuesday they are offering employees a voluntary retirement buyout with a one-time payout equal to 50% of an employee's annual base salary.

The buyouts at UW-Oshkosh and UW-Green Bay offer the same payout, but the eligibility requirements are different. At UW-Green Bay, the offer is being extended to all employees 55 and older who have at least five years of service. At UW-Oshkosh, employees must be at least 60 and have 25 years of service to the state to be eligible.

Tuesday's announcements bring to four the total number of campuses seeking to reduce their workforce through voluntary buyouts in the face of state budget cuts. UW-Eau Claire was the first campus to make the offer, followed last week by UW-Superior.(300)

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I didn't either but we probably should have. Usually where there is Nordstrom Rack there is a full line Nordstrom somewhere near by. With Nordstrom rack going into the Mayfair Collection it makes sense to have a full line store at Mayfair. Both will be a welcome addition.

The tenants in the attached office tower already don't have enough parking for their patients and clients. This will only make that worse. Especially during December. Is there a plan in place to make up for the lost parking?

A parking ramp will be fine to replace the lost parking for Nordstroms. But it's the placement of the ramp that concerns me. The one on the south side of Boston Store is simply too far away to be useful. If they build one in the empty lot where the medical building was, it would also be too far away.

They have limited covered parking under the movie theater, but most of that is taken up by mall employees including the mall management. I hope improving the parking is part of the overall plan.

They should make the entire east side of Mayfair into a three story, low rise parking structure with multilevel entrances off of Center and exits onto North Ave. so that all turns are right turns. This would optimize traffic flow.

And to all the people claiming Mayfair is dead...Nordstrom will be a welcome addition to Milwaukee. The mall I still see with the biggest challenges is Southridge. Areas bordering southridge are getting worse not better and as Mayfair cracks down harder on nonsense in their mall, that traffic is going to other malls...mainly Southridge...

Nordstrom understands customer first mentality. I worked directly under their former President and learned a ton about growing a loyal customer base through amazing service. Too bad most other retail executives forgot about that part of business...

Brookield just added soda machines, and Mayfair is adding Nordstrom. Brookfield has a terrible mix of stores that would not compliment Nordstrom...Mayfair does. Too bad there are so many economic illiterates posting on here........

Great business plan. Considering MKE is so close to the Illinois and Mich. boarder, this might attract people from other states that doesn't have a Nordstrom or it isn't one close to them. I am sure people from all over WI will make trips there.